News of the amazing surgery at the Miller School's Bascom Palmer Eye Institute that restored a blind woman's vision with her tooth is ricocheting around the world, generating headlines, sound bytes and computer clicks from Seattle to Singapore.

Translated into numerous languages, the story of how Victor Perez, M.D., a cornea specialist and associate professor of ophthalmology, and his team repaired a severely scarred cornea with a prosthetic lens held in place by a tooth has been featured on almost every local and major broadcast, print and Internet news outlet.

Among them: CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, NPR, the BBC, USA Today, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, People magazine, AOL and Yahoo.

Even YouTube has a link to a video about the procedure - the first performed in the United States - and the Sept. 16 Bascom Palmer news conference where Perez thanked Sharron "Kay" Thornton for having the courage to test a "far-fetched idea.''

Indeed, the 60-year-old grandmother from Mississippi was incredulous when broached about becoming the first recipient of a modified osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (MOOKP) in the United States. But now, just three weeks after surgery, she boasts 20/60 vision in her left eye, making her a believer in miracles, and a beacon of hope for patients around the world blinded by severe corneal scarring.